The quality of shots you get determine the shooting %. Even when open...a pass that is off the mark will disrupt a shooter's rthymn and negatively impact a shooting %. The thing I am concerned about most is that we take so many off balance jumpers. PGIV and Jakar are the worst offenders.
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The quality of shots you get determine the shooting %. Even when open...a pass that is off the mark will disrupt a shooter's rthymn and negatively impact a shooting %. The thing I am concerned about most is that we take so many off balance jumpers. PGIV and Jakar are the worst offenders.
Do you make this stuff up as you go along? We were a solid defensive team inside the arc. Stats don't lie. "consensus among us in the knowing"... You serious with this stuff? A blocked shot has nothing in common with a dunk. A dunk is a made shot. A blocked shot is a prevented shot, and the only was besides a defensive stop or steal to actively prevent a team from increasing their field goal percentage. Aka, it directly influences the games outcomeand lowers opposing team's field goal percentage every time a shot is blocked.
Wisconsin is actually not usually a great offensive rebounding team, because they get back quickly on defense. It's the offensive boards and second chance shots we need to concentrate on, and we will likely have an advantage because they lost all their frontcourt from last year. Need to crash the offensive glass, especially because we aren't the best shooting team traditionally.
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I agree with your comments about stats not telling the whole story. We were so ugly on offense at times last year, it kind of lulls better opponents into poor shooting performances. I don't remember a lot of lockdowns when we needed it, but lots of breakdowns on defense. Block shots in basketball can be like Dave Kingman homeruns - the strikeouts kill you when you are swinging for the fences too much. Blocked shots don't tell the story about roaming on defense, and leaving your man wide open for an easy layup or put back when you are out of position.
What you are trying to convince people of is not the statistical truth. The whole story is that we were #51 in FG % defense, which statistically translates into the truth being that we defended inside the arc more than a large swathe of high major schools, ncluding most of the former Big East including some tourney teams. Just because you don't remember something doesn't change the facts and make it partial truth. Your "truth" is more akin to beer goggles, where your memory of those girls tells a much different tale, regardless of the facts.
Well besides adding Rysheed, Orlando and Hooper who all shoot better than the returnees at their respective positions.
Not saying that will be the be all and end all of having a great FG% but it will be one contributing factor in improving this weakness.
True.
I'm not sure Hooper will play enough to really effect our shooting %, but generally you're right, so point taken.
Correct about Kingman striking out too much.
Correct that blocks are often times more hype than they are productive. (sometimes)
But how the hell does our team shooting bricks "lull the opponent into missing shots"? So, because we couldn't hit a jumper for 4mins, all of a sudden other teams were going to miss shots? That's not how it works.
Correct that blocks are often times more hype than they are productive. (sometimes)
But how the hell does our team shooting bricks "lull the opponent into missing shots"? So, because we couldn't hit a jumper for 4mins, all of a sudden other teams were going to miss shots? That's not how it works.
Prediction: St. John's 64 Wisconsin 60. It will be a slow grind-it-out game just like Wisconsin wants. (Sorry, I had to pick the Johnnies.)
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Our three new pieces have hit 7 3s in two exh games. I think we've improved our outside shooting.
Edit: just saw austor brought this up as well.
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Basketball is often about outcomes. Good teams too often play down to the competition, but manage to put it together in the last 4-5 minutes to secure victories. Our entire history of our program (including the Final Four year) is littered with narrow victories over teams we should have destroyed. So, when we struggle to put the ball in the hole for very long stretches, often a better opponent doesn't capitalize, and it is as much due to the ugly basketball we are playing offensively. In many of our losses against better teams, the opponent held comfortable leads, and despite the fact that we didn't play particularly well, we'd creep to within single digits at certain points. You might be inclined to chalk it up to great defense, but we never quite got the stops we needed at critical points to make the game serious. Sorry to disagree, but that's how it often works - the lead with the lead knows they are controlling the game, and gets a little careless in their shot selection or passing, and fails to blow an opponent out. If you think that our failure to cover the 3 was simply a result of packing it in and playing superior interior defense, then I'd disagree with that. We covered ball rotation extremely poorly at times, resulting in mad scrambles to reach a wide open shooter.
Sportsrow.com you should be able to get a link to watch the game .